Martha Cooley in conversation with LARB on her novel BUY ME LOVE!
Date: August 2, 2021
This is not a spoiler, I promise it isn’t, only just consider for a moment: Say you buy a lottery ticket — have you ever? — say you do, just […]
News & Reviews
News:
Kristen Young’s SUBDUCTION included in Book Riot’s #TheNewLatinBoom!
Date: August 2, 2021
Latin American literature travels frequently in its original form, in translation, and through the presence of writers who don’t stay put. In the U.S., works by Latin American writers make their way […]
Kim Dower’s poetry featured in The Writer’s Almanac!
Date: July 30, 2021
“Wake up thinking it’s trash dayso I move the cans out to the fronteven though it’s pouring. Back in,make extra strong coffee,read the story in the paperabout the 400-pound bear […]
SINKING ISLANDS author Cai Emmons interviewed on KBOO!
Date: July 29, 2021
On today’s show, we welcome two Oregon-based writers — Suzy Vitello and Cai Emmons — who have published recent novels, speculative fiction, focused on climate change, its effects on the environment and those of […]
When Your Book Publishes In A Pandemic — Authors, Including Aimee Liu, Talk About Terrible Timing
Date: July 28, 2021
Sarah Ramey’s first book was supposed to be a very big deal. Her publishers expected The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness to be a runaway best seller.”We had a huge publicity […]
If It Isn’t Broken: A Conversation between Francesca Bell & Justine Bateman
Date: July 28, 2021
JUSTINE BATEMAN HAS LIVED in the public eye for nearly 40 years. During those years, she’s been a lot of things — actress, writer, producer, director, designer, pilot, wife, mother […]
Kristen Millares Young & Khalisa Rae featured in PANK Magazine’s latest issue with new pieces!
Date: July 26, 2021
PANK Magazine’s just released their 16th issue, which includes a Non Fiction piece titled Fathers Day written by Kristen Millares Young and poetry by Khalisa Rae titled Livestock. Kristen Millares […]
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE author Dariel Suarez interviewed by Illianna Gonzalez-Soto in Latinx in Publishing!
Date: July 21, 2021
Dariel Suarez was born in Havana, Cuba, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1997. His debut story collection, A Kind of Solitude,received the 2017 Spokane Prize […]
Dexter L. Booth’s ABRACADABRA, SUNSHINE was featured on 10 Can’t Miss New Books!
Date: July 21, 2021
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Florencia Ramirez, author of EAT LESS WATER, interviewed on KCRW!
Date: July 21, 2021
Water is part of nearly every aspect of the farm-to-table supply chain. So how can people eat food that takes less water to grow, clean and prepare? Florencia Ramirez, author […]
Reviews:
Stunning review of Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE in terrain.org!
Date: June 28, 2023
n this time of acrimony and push-button polemics, it is a rare pleasure to discover a writer whose politically engaged poetry is vividly alive to the nuances evoked by incisive […]
Joanne Skerrett’s ISLAND MAN featured in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: June 22, 2023
A man revisits his unconventional relationship with his father. This book begins in the wake of loss as narrator Hector Peterson points out that he and his father, Winston Telemacque, […]
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND reviewed by Colorado State University
Date: June 12, 2023
Many of the poems in Bell’s second full-length book explore suffering and sadness through a very personal lens: terrifying moments of objectification and sexual violation; the desolation and isolation that […]
Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER featured in Soapberry Review
Date: June 6, 2023
In this work of poetry, Vuong unbinds what gets lost while carrying the aftermath from Vietnamese voices that have been longing to breathe after the disruption from wars, migration, and […]
PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason featured in Review 31
Date: June 6, 2023
A strong poetic sensibility is combined with a successful conversational style in several insightful accounts of familiar situations, like seeing people in airports that one thinks one knows (‘Long Haul’), […]
The Seattle Times recommends Amber Flame’s APOCRIFA among ‘5 new books from LGBTQ+ authors to read this Pride month’!
Date: June 6, 2023
As we enter another Pride month, it feels as though 2023 has been one of the toughest legislative years for LGBTQ+ folks in a long time. As we witness and […]
Peninsula Clarion’s Off the Shelf recommends H Warren’s BINDED!
Date: June 6, 2023
I’ve always found poetry a bit intimidating. Sometimes I think I know where one is going, then out of nowhere I’m thrown for a loop and left puzzled with a […]
Kirkus Reviews features Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS!
Date: June 5, 2023
The illegitimate daughter of a white mother and a Jordanian father, Halaby, author of two novels and two collections of poetry, felt that she was a “fiction…squished between other people’s […]
Ann Poore reviews Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES for 15 Bytes!
Date: June 1, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by Katharine Coles – who might be a witch (IMHO) given the ready way she connects with animals (including her parrot Henri, pronounced […]
VerseCurious reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: June 1, 2023
I review Phuong T. Vuong’s A Plucked Zither, from Red Hen Press (June 6, 2023). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/versecurious/donations